Mackinnon thanks so much for joining us a christian pakistani woman whose case has made head well to headlines is not yet free despite a Supremes Court decision finding her innocent of blasphemy and lifting her death sentence all the a babys husband a sick must see has told you in an exclusive interview that he fears for his wife and the rest of their familys safety it has also now emerged the lawyer has fled the country the Supremes Court decision to acquit the stokes days of protests by islamist hardliners bibi was sentenced to death of blasphemy in two thousand and ten off to neighbors accused of insulting the prophet mohammed. You can find the full interview with babys husband on a website stay w. Dot com and for more on this were joined by shanta zia hes a human rights campaigner in pakistan who lives in toronto thanks so much for joining us now your father solomon. Your father salmond says it was a former governor of Punjab Province he was assassinated in twenty eleven off the he
Im rebecca races welcome to the show tens of thousands of iranians are taking part in antiamerican demonstrations in cities across the country the rallies are being held to mock the you at the takeover of the u. S. Embassy in tehran forty years ago they also come as the population braces for a crippling new sanctions set to be imposed by the trumpet ministration on monday iran marks the anniversary every here but anger towards the u. S. Is reported to have increased since President Trump decided to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal more now on the way a rainy and preparing for the new sanctions. America. Is finishing this six story Apartment Building theres no project lined up next hes been building homes for ten years employing one hundred fifty people when times were good now theres just fifty new contracts have dried up because no ones confident enough to invest right now. The sanctions are putting irans economy under even more pressure theyre causing enormous uncertainty over nig
giving them the right to due to anybody overturned and to receive a verdict of the over all of the like and this is perhaps the most humiliating concession ever made bye bye bye bye by a nation state in the history of democracy and can only be described as a death warrant of democracy so now basically a c. a b. b. faces a shot on trial where having spent nine years in jail after having been found innocent by the highest court in the country she is going to be retried by by a court demanded by a religious model essentially. essentially demanded at gunpoint but i just want to say what what is at trial over here is not just a theater vasil bibi what is at trial is also the fate of buck a stunt as a nation state to decide whether it is a function of nation state or a theocratic moment. shanta zia there speaking to us. ten